Tourism that started in the 1950s to Santa's home in Rovaniemi, Lapland in Finland is now suffering from overtourism and the ...

ROVANIEMI, Finland (AP) -- Shuffling across icy ground on a cold December afternoon, lots of tourist groups poured into Santa Claus Village, a winter-themed amusement park perched on the edge of the ...

Eurovision has sparked global curiosity about one of Finland’s most iconic traditions: the sauna. But for many, the idea of stepping into one comes with uncertainty — do you have to be naked, is ...

HELSINKI, June 13 (Xinhua) -- The recovery of Finland's tourism sector is expected to take longer compared to other Nordic countries due to the significant loss of Russian visitors, Kristiina ...

The nights are drawing in and temperatures are dropping in the Northern Hemisphere. And in Finnish Lapland, that means one thing: tourists are on the way, and they want husky rides. That’s becoming a ...

Photo Credit: Kristiina Hietasaari (Senior Director, Visit Finland) and Alessandra Priante (President, ENIT – The Italian National Tourist Board) and join Skift's Sarah Kopit at Skift Transatlantic ...

Five-star hotels in Helsinki and Champagne excursions in Lapland are just some of the indications that the country’s approach to tourism is changing. By Penelope Colston Reporting from Helsinki, ...

HELSINKI, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- David Wu, Visit Finland's director of Greater China, said in a recent written interview with Xinhua that he was excited by China's decision to reopen group tourism to ...

For decades, tourist experiences such as dog sledding have told a false narrative of Indigenous Sámi traditions. Tourists take a reindeer sleigh ride through Levi in Finnish Lapland, the ancestral ...

Visit Finland is presenting a virtual version of its "Rent A Finn" campaign, with Facebook live presentations on May 15. Finland’s tourism board wants the world to be as content as its people are. A ...

Finland announced Thursday it would shut its border to Russian tourists at midnight as thousands of men fled to avoid getting drafted in the war with Ukraine. Helsinki said the tourist ban would lead ...